Veterans Day Special - Call Sign Courage
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Chaos in Chicago as federal agents clash with protesters. After 41 days, the light is finally at the end of the tunnel. The Senate passes a bill that will fund the government through January 30th. President Trump lays a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.
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A commentator, international social media sensation, and former Navy intelligence veteran.
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This is Human Events with your host, Jack Poso.
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Chaos in Chicago as federal agents clash with protesters.
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Authorities are now searching for a suspect who allegedly fired shots at federal agents
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And an urgent search underway for the person who federal agents say fired multiple gunshots
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at them during an immigration enforcement operation on Saturday.
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A crowd was demanding a detained woman's release when the Department of Homeland Security says
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a man driving a black Jeep fired the shots and then took off.
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The agency sank protesters also through bricks and a paint can at their vehicles, calling those
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After 41 days, the light is finally at the end of the tunnel.
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The Senate voting 60 to 40 to pass a bill that will fund the government through January 30th.
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As far as this bill is concerned, it is now in the hands of the U.S. House.
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That is the group Turning Point USA, founded by the late conservative activist Charlie Kirk.
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Some Cal students say they are disappointed with the school for allowing the event to happen.
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So far, at least two people have been detained.
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Across the globe, our veterans fought and bled to vanquish our enemies and preserve America's
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Now, ladies and gentlemen, welcome aboard today's edition of Human Events Daily.
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And just a few hours ago, we saw President Trump there at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.
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But that didn't stop the President of the United States.
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And it certainly didn't stop the Vice President of the United States, a Marine, J.D. Vance,
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from standing next to him and appearing with the color guard there as they laid the wreath
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for America's fallen at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier earlier today.
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Ultimately, we have a nation for one reason only.
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Because American patriots have been willing to fight for it.
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Because American patriots have been willing to fight and defend this nation from the very
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If you look at the Minutemen, look at the Army, look at the Navy, the Marines, all of those
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services predate the actual founding of the United States by several months, November,
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When you look at that, you look at the history of the patriots, you look at the history of
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those who were willing to fight and those who were willing to sacrifice up to and including
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And for those people who served, and for those people who continue to serve, they go where
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And that's why, when we have those political decisions, that it should always be taken with
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But if you are going to put an American serviceman into harm's way, it is only done when it is
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of the utmost importance and in the direct interests of the American nation and the defense of the
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We would not have an American people if it were not for the American patriots and the American
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And last night we had, and I mentioned it on Fox News, perhaps another iteration of yet another
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We saw furry elements attacking the students and parents, by the way, who just wanted to go to a turning
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point event, spend time with their families, hear some great speakers, like Rob Schneider, a Hollywood
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actor who's come out now fully embracing Christ, fully embracing his patriotism.
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They were attacked by a known terrorist group, Antifa.
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The Berkeley chapter of Antifa is called By Any Means Necessary.
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They were behind the attacks of the Battle of Berkeley all the way back to 2017, the multiple battles
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And yet, for some reason, they have not yet been rolled up.
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American patriots must defend the American people, both here at home as well as abroad, from this insanity.
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We faced violence at the very last event of the tour, and we faced violence at the very first event of the tour.
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Radical Marxists attacking people at the streets and committing one assassination.
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So, if we're going to honor veterans today, if we're going to honor patriotism today, then we should honor the things that they fought for.
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Honor the things that the World War I veterans fought for.
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We'll be right back with the Undersecretary of the Air Force, Matt Lohmeyer.
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Well, folks, today is Veterans Day, and we wanted to tell a veteran's story.
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And I'm really excited to be able to tell you that there is a new documentary that's coming out about a veteran's story
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that actually isn't even from, you know, as long ago as 1775 or 1776.
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In fact, it's just from the last couple of years, because just as America's story has continued,
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so too has the story of American servicemen and the story of American veterans.
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And there's a new documentary that's come out telling one of those stories.
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It is called Call Sign Courage, The Matt Lohmeyer Story.
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Being spied on, the chaplain snooping around my office, and my house being broken into.
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Things like that don't happen on military bases.
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The man I'm interviewing today has 1,200 hours of flying a T-38, followed by the F-15C.
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This is not just anybody we're talking about that served the military.
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Historically, we've been the best in the world, because we've always cared about merit.
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And it's what made the American military the most lethal military on the planet.
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The entire military is preparing for a fight against China.
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President Xi is the most ideological leader that China's had since Chairman Mao.
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They asked me what my pronouns were, and they thought it was incredible to see that inclusion
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We were starting to be divided by political discourse.
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I want to understand white rage, and I'm white.
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That's what diversity, equity, and inclusion is all about.
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Because of forces coming from Marxism within our own government, it becomes not a foreign
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The base commander was the ideologue who was pushing a particular political agenda.
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Biggest terror threat in this country is white men.
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One of the greatest obstacles to the success of a Marxist revolutionary cause is a strong
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You can check it out on Salem Now, SalemNow.com.
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I'm very excited to be joined here, live in studio, by the Undersecretary of the Air Force
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and a veteran himself, in fact, the first veteran of the Space Force.
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So, your story, you know, going from writing a book the way you did, coming out the way
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you did, what happened to you, the response from previous administration, and now, I really
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don't want to make an Air Force pun right here, but soaring to what you've become, what does
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Just going back and kind of, if you had to think about it from, I don't know if you fly
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at 50,000 feet, but maybe the Space Force does.
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But how does it feel, having gone through so many ups and downs, to now be sitting here
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I want to say, I guess, kind of a necessary caveat up front, which you'll appreciate.
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You know, I didn't come here to promote the film.
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I'm here to talk about veterans and the work we're doing in the Air Force, of course.
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And I do want to tell you a little bit about how I'm feeling.
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I wrote a book, you know, nearly four, over four years ago now, because I saw problems
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And like you or anyone that served in the military, you appreciate the fact that a divided military
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And the problems that I happened to see at my base were something that I had tried to
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use all of the appropriate channels from my chain of command to the inspector general's
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office to try to tell a story that would hopefully hold activists accountable for political activism
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You were very supportive back then, by the way, so thank you very much.
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And so I ended up in private life for the last four years, which I enjoyed very much.
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I enjoyed having a full range of free expression of my views as a private citizen, but ended
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It's been a little over a year that that happened.
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In fact, one year ago today, exactly, I was sitting with Pete Hagseth before he was nominated
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by the president to be the secretary of defense.
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We were in John Rich's bar in downtown Nashville, Tennessee, and we were doing a Fox Nation show
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on Veterans Day, and he told me he was headed to the White House the very next day to interview
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But he stepped up to the plate, and I was happy to step up when he and the president asked
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It's been a steeper learning curve than I expected.
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I speak both Air Force and Space Force, and yet there's a whole lot to learn, and I'm
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four months into the job, and I'm getting the hang of it now.
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You know, when I deployed down to Gitmo, I was actually attached to an Army unit, so
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I could say I don't know if I speak Army, but I understand it, but of course I speak Navy.
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I didn't realize that Space Force had already generated its own lingo.
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It has its own lingo because it's got its own domain.
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You know, I had to divorce, I had flown F-15s, I've been a T-38 instructor pilot.
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You have to kind of divorce yourself a little bit from the air mindset and start thinking
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about orbital mechanics, LEO, MIO, GMO, the words you're already learning, and you want
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Yeah, anything you can look up at night, by the way, and see with the naked eye, the moving
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satellites, the little teeny stars that go slowly across the sky, those are in low Earth orbit,
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Yeah, in fact, if you've had a chance to see Starlink, you'll see those things transitioning
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up into space, big train of lights that are going up there.
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Anything beyond LEO, you're not going to be able to pick up with the naked eye.
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People mistake what we have in LEO for other things, but those are satellites, they're reflecting
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So you get to see a little bit of what's going on in space, but not much.
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I was just at the Andrews Air Force Base Air Show about a month and a half ago, and you've
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got people from all over that come in and they pet the jets and they see what the Air
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Force does, but you can't see what the Space Force does.
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So our space operators actually need to develop a unique mindset to be able to operate successfully
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So I speak both of those languages, and yet here I am now, a public servant, civilian,
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a political appointee, helping manage the Air Force and, frankly, care for the troops,
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the Airmen and Guardians in the Air and Space Force, by giving them the proper resources
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to do their jobs, to train properly, the tools that they need to successfully do their mission.
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It's a daunting task, but it's exciting and I'm grateful to be here.
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How would you say the transition's been going from serving in uniform as your lieutenant colonel
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then to civilian life, but now in a leadership of force capacity?
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I've had some surprises and also some things I expected.
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Bob Gates, in his memoir, said he was even shocked when he became Secretary of Defense
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back in the day, first during, I think, the Obama years, in fact, maybe it was the Bush
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administration and then the Obama years, but he was shocked at the bureaucracy, how difficult
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it is to successfully get done what needs to get done.
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I've read Panetta's memoir and he talks about that as well.
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My love and respect for the troops and what they do on a day-in and day-out basis has been
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It's not a surprise to me, but it was a great reminder coming back out of civilian life and
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to this leadership and management capacity to be able to interact with them.
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And our senior leaders, we have many great senior leaders, despite some of the negative
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Our Air and Space Force leaders, I think, they have my respect.
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They're trying their best to serve the American people and the president's agenda.
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We're sitting down in studio on human events daily with Under Secretary of the Air Force,
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Lieutenant Colonel Matthew Lohmeyer, the first Space Force veteran.
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You have to stop getting titles, Matt, by the way.
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He is also, and he's not promoting, but I'm promoting, he is the subject of the new
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We're going to take a very quick break, because when we get back, I want to get into some of
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the things that you talked about in the book that you put out and some of the things that
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our military, you know, prior to Secretary Hegseth coming in, had been steering us down, I think,
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the wrong path, and things that we're doing now to right the ship and correctly orient
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it towards America's adversaries and America's threats.
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Human Events Daily, New York City, Washington, D.C., Real America's Voice.
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All right, folks, Jack Kosobik, we are back live here, Human Events Daily, Washington, D.C.
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We're here live in studio, and we're honored to be joined by the Honorable Matthew Lohmeyer,
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Under Secretary of the Air Force, and Under Secretary Lohmeyer, you wrote this book, and
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it became the subject of so much information, it became the subject of, well, it became the
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impetus for, and the catalyst for what made you the first Space Force veteran.
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What made you want to put pen to paper when you wrote that book?
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FRUSTRATION WITH MY FAILED ATTEMPTS TO USE THE SYSTEM, A CHAIN OF COMMAND, AND THE INSPECTOR GENERAL'S
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OFFICE TO CORRECT POLITICAL ACTIVISM IN THE MILITARY WORKPLACE.
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I had attempted for many months to right a wrong that was happening.
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At least in many cases, poor ethical, you know, it was misconduct, and in some cases,
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in my view, criminal conduct, because we've got law that prohibits discrimination within
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the military based on race, hiring practices, promotion practices, and so forth.
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And we had troops that were being targeted in uniform for their accidentals, as it were,
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And I think my chain of command at the time in the Space Force happened to probably agree
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with me that this was a big problem, but we'd created a climate of fear, and we were rendered
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rather incapable of solving the problem ourselves, and so after my failed attempts, I felt inspired
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to put pen to paper, as you put it, to write about it in a book as an effort to create dialogue,
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to bring it to the attention of Congress and the American people, and frankly, I had the
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I wanted to educate them specifically about what I knew as the communist or Marxist roots
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of the current progressive social justice activism that were dividing the military.
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And we spent an immense amount of blood and treasure during the Cold War fighting this
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To have it just wreck house in this country was a really sad thing and frustrating thing
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And so I thought, you know, I'm uniquely situated.
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I have a unique vantage as a commander in the military.
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I'm going to make this, although it's about a political ideology, it's not intended to be
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I was later painted as kind of a partisan activist.
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I was about keeping partisanship out of the military.
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So I've also, and actually, you wrote your book prior to mine, but I also wrote a book
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And I think one of the things we were just talking during the break that we both came
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about was that you saw this in China, but you really saw it in Bolshevik Russia, that
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one of the first things that the Bolsheviks did when they wanted to recruit was they actually
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But they start going in, and they start introducing these justice reforms.
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And the justice reforms are meant to make the units more equitable.
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And they would say, well, your unit, it's all Russian and ethnic Russian.
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And you need more Bergyars and Burats and Tajiks and Tadars and all of this, you know, because
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And then when the unit became a less capable fighting force, they went to that unit and
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Perhaps your real enemy is back home in the Capitol.
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And I realized, looking at it, saying, my gosh, these aren't similar tactics.
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Same playbook, same spirit that motivates that work.
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I mean, I get to see a really clear picture now as the Undersecretary of the Air Force.
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We've got an amazing leadership right now, Undersecretary Higgs, Seth, and President Trump.
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No enemy on this planet is capable of unseating the United States as the power, the great power
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We can undo that ourselves, however, if we start fighting one another, if we start hating
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one another and demonizing the other, especially in uniform, because we become ineffective,
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And the mission that we do in the United States military requires a laser-like focus when you're
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I just saw, if we've got time to tell a brief story, my first day back as a public servant,
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I'd just been read in and was capable, you know, I was able to go in and sit down and
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receive some good and important information about our military operations.
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I sat down to listen to the planners and those that executed Operation Midnight Hammer in
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Iran, the strikes that were so well orchestrated.
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And I was nearly brought to tears, very emotional about the quality of work, the professionalism
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of these young men and women who flew bombers, flew fighters, flew tankers, did a lot of planning,
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sacrificed a lot of family time for a number of weeks to bring this together seamlessly and
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And you cannot persist in that excellence if you are beset by distractions like diversity
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Secretary Hagsworth has done a phenomenal job since the very beginning of eliminating those
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And I'll tell you, it's my sense that our troops are very, excuse me, our troops are very
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happy that there is a return to a focus on warfighting.
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Well, and I can remember in the intelligence community on our side of the house before
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I got out, I can remember them sort of going around with these sort of like mini pride flags
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And it would say, well, you got to put those up at your cubicle or put those up at your desk
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And they would say, well, no, this is if you're in, this is for allies.
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And they said, well, you put it up to show your support.
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I said, well, I don't really feel comfortable putting something like that up.
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I just, I'm just, I'm just going to sit at my desk and focus on China.
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And you could see how there was this social pressure that was brought to bear that if
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you, that if you rejected the, you know, the display of whatever the cause was, and it
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It's just about the cause that suddenly, you know, suddenly that's a demerit against
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And suddenly, you know, people start looking at you differently and people start writing
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And, and you're, you're sitting there wondering, why aren't we focused on the mission?
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That's why I focus on all of this because we want to win.
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And it seemed like we had totally lost our focus.
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And this is under, under Obama during those years.
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We're with Lieutenant Colonel Matt Lohmeyer, current under secretary of the air force live
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We're always talking about the fake news and the bad, but we have guys and these are the
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We are on with under secretary of the air force, Matt Lohmeyer.
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He's here and he's walking us through his book, The Irresistible Revolution.
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And it occurs to me, you know, talking about you saw, so you were, you were depicting and
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mapping out the issues that you saw within the force when you were, when you were in
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You become the first veteran of the Space Force.
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That revolutionary change that we saw going on within the force, where is it now?
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And what are the initiatives to, I don't want to say right the ship, but I'm going to have
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So I think that your viewers would be well aware of the fact that President Trump comes
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back into office, issues a number of executive orders that are deliberately targeting these
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problems within the uniformed services and across all of the federal agencies.
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In fact, before he left office for his first term, in September of 2020, he attempted by
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executive order to eliminate diversity, equity, and inclusion trainings from the uniformed
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And so there was a short reprieve there before the next administration had come in.
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Secretary Hegseth, as the Secretary of Defense, now Secretary of War, has done an outstanding
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job moving out quickly, executing those executive orders.
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And each of the services or the departments, and in my case, the Department of the Air Force,
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have efforts underway and have ever since the beginning of this administration to be very
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clear in our communication with the force that we're merit-focused, that we're standards-focused.
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And you know what's really interesting, and I mentioned this in my book that you brought
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up, I warn in the book that if we abandon meritocracy and if we abandon a standards-based
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military, we will see our recruitment numbers plummet and our retention plummet.
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And that happened, and as soon as the president, this administration, Secretary Hegseth re-adjusted
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the focus to be meritocracy-based, standards-based, what did you see happen with recruitment and
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We didn't have a problem for the first time in a number of years meeting our recruiting
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You've got young men and women all over the country that are excited to come in and serve
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And they see that lethality matters and nothing else.
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We're interested in serving our country, keeping the homeland safe, deterring our enemies
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abroad, and we've got a serious administration that prioritizes those things.
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A lot of people reached out over the last few years not sure if they should serve and wanted
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I get people excitedly telling me they're signing up and are so happy with how things are
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You know, it's funny you mention that because I had so many people would, when I do the
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turning point events and, you know, we would have college kids come up or even sometimes
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high school kids come up and they would say, you know, during, and during the previous
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administration, they would say, you know, I've always wanted to go in, I've always wanted
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to serve my country, but I'm just, I'm just not sure because I hear you talk about these
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things and, you know, I had, you know, heard your book, heard about you, heard of your
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story and say, you know, does it make sense for me to go in?
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And what I would always say is this, I would say, do it.
00:31:00.260
I would say, go in and, and, you know, tell me your opinion on it.
00:31:03.860
But I would always say, do in, go in because we are going to win because I believe common
00:31:12.820
And I believe that the right answers will once again, uh, take the, take over the leadership.
00:31:17.960
And when that point comes, we are going to need good people that are already there.
00:31:21.220
Uh, unlike you, I'm not talking about me now, but unlike you, there were, you know,
00:31:27.380
one of the ways in which we get young men and women to even take interest in the, in
00:31:31.280
an all volunteer force in the first place is that they've got moms and dads and grandmas
00:31:36.340
and grandpas who have all served, aunts and uncles.
00:31:38.280
And when you've got an older generation in particular, that does not appreciate the direction that
00:31:48.020
the country is going, that does not appreciate the, the policy changes within the defense
00:31:52.840
department, now war department, that, um, that seem to upend all that they, you know, all
00:31:58.440
that they fought for themselves and the unity that they experienced, uh, uh, while they
00:32:02.920
were in uniform, they're not willing to recommend to the next generation military service.
00:32:07.500
And, and I think we're, we're seeing a change there again.
00:32:16.520
And especially because so many of those, uh, those kids, when they come through the pipeline,
00:32:20.500
when they were hitting 16, 17, where those prime recruitment ages, you know, if, if they're,
00:32:25.220
if they're vomited at or active duty, they've grown up in, in the military.
00:32:32.280
They've had, you know, they've had, uh, you know, military healthcare, et cetera, et cetera.
00:32:38.560
And, you know, this has always been the core draw.
00:32:41.620
I, I, uh, I was, uh, lived on base for a number of years and I, I always used to make
00:32:46.520
I'd say, you know, it's very interesting to me that here on base, we have, uh, we have a hospital,
00:32:50.460
we have a daycare, we have an elementary school, we have a high school, we have, you, we have,
00:32:54.080
we have a MEPS, uh, so you can join the military.
00:32:58.520
We have, we have higher grad, uh, then we have, we have the retirement section.
00:33:02.240
We have the RV trailers and all the way at the other end of base, we have a cemetery.
00:33:05.080
It's like the whole, it's, it's a whole thing and community, right?
00:33:09.440
Yeah, which is, which is what you want, which is ultimately what you want.
00:33:12.380
And, and, and, and, you know, it's, it was heartbreaking.
00:33:17.020
And, and by the way, obviously a national security crisis, if we broke that, if we broke
00:33:21.520
that system and broke that trust for so many of those, so many of those generations that
00:33:25.680
you, you meet people and, and it's shocking when they say, oh, I've, every generation of
00:33:36.140
I, I had, um, I'm guessing it was a year, it might've been two over the past four years
00:33:41.140
while I was a civilian, I guess I'm still a civilian, but just, when I was, when I was
00:33:48.840
in my private, uh, life, uh, for, you know, after I'd separated, I wondered if the trends
00:33:54.960
continued, we might lose our opportunity to have an all volunteer force in this country.
00:34:01.140
That was my, I don't know if everyone would have agreed with that, but as I watched what
00:34:04.140
was happening, I thought, I don't know how many years you keep this up with low recruitment
00:34:07.800
numbers, uh, and, and still avoid a compulsory military service in this country.
00:34:13.040
We've enjoyed over a half century of all, in all volunteer force.
00:34:16.140
And, um, I think the trend is headed in the right direction.
00:34:20.140
One of the, um, you know, and I, and I have to bring this up because one of the people
00:34:25.220
that I know who were, who was so focused on that very issue was someone who was actually
00:34:32.420
appointed to the board of visitors for the United States air force and had conduct, had
00:34:39.180
time to conduct one visit out there in, uh, in Colorado Springs.
00:34:43.980
And that was Charlie Kirk and Charlie and I spoke many times about how he was so excited.
00:34:50.220
And, you know, he had, he'd had an interest in serving earlier in his life.
00:34:55.720
He ended up doing turning point full time and we all know the story there, but he always
00:35:03.220
And I knew that joining the air force in even this advisory capacity was so exciting for him.
00:35:09.720
Tragically, he didn't get a chance to see that all the way through, but you told me you
00:35:13.820
had a conversation with Charlie right before he took that visit.
00:35:17.220
Yeah, we had, um, so my, my conversations with Charlie were after his visit to the air
00:35:22.520
force academy in his capacity, uh, on the board of visitors.
00:35:27.220
Uh, but just a couple of days before his assassination.
00:35:31.220
And, uh, we had spoken a couple of times, in fact, and exchanged messages because I'll share
00:35:35.720
with you the two reasons that he was really interested in talking with me about his love for those
00:35:41.220
Uh, he, he spent time there getting a tour at the air force academy, spent time with the leadership
00:35:45.220
there, he, he got to see what cadet life was like and he got to interact with the men and
00:35:49.220
women that are the future leaders in the air and space force.
00:35:52.220
And he had great respect for them, said they were outstanding and impressive, wanted to ensure
00:35:57.220
that any barriers to their character development and their education were eliminated.
00:36:02.220
And he also took particular interest in the cadet chapel.
00:36:11.220
And he, he was disappointed to see, as are many people, uh, and, and rightly so, the big
00:36:17.220
white box that sits around the cadet chapel because it's under construction.
00:36:20.220
There's a, there's a restoration project that's been underway for many years.
00:36:24.220
And Charlie said, Hey, I've just called the president.
00:36:26.220
I've spoken with him a couple of times expressing the need to move out faster and get this, this,
00:36:31.220
this, this, uh, restoration project, uh, done correctly because we're going to have two generations
00:36:36.220
of young cadets that come through this place and never get to experience or see their, their cadet
00:36:42.220
And, um, I appreciated that input and the air force, uh, appreciated the input, uh, already
00:36:47.220
thought that, but to see that there was extra attention.
00:36:50.220
Uh, and in fact, recently the president even put up a true social post about the chapel.
00:36:54.220
He's paying attention, but the air force leadership is moving out with alacrity, trying to get that
00:37:00.220
project, um, done as quickly and as wisely as possible so that we can get our, our cadets,
00:37:08.220
uh, one back in, in, in what is the, uh, symbol of the spiritual center there of the air force
00:37:15.220
Uh, and also all the, all the folks driving down interstate 25 every day of the week that
00:37:19.220
see just a white box and not the iconic chapel there.
00:37:24.220
In fact, I recently took a trip out there to meet with the contractor and air force, uh,
00:37:27.220
leadership who are in charge of that project to make sure that we get it right.
00:37:31.220
Move it left if possible, save as much money as possible moving forward.
00:37:34.220
And I'm, I'm optimistic about those conversations, but Charlie cared about getting that right.
00:37:38.220
And that was the last conversation I had about, uh, with him was about that chapel.
00:37:43.220
There's, there's so many touch points and so many fingers and so many pots that Charlie
00:37:49.220
It's incredible to hear that we're going to carry that out.
00:37:51.220
And I, I know Charlie would really appreciate that.
00:37:53.220
We'll be right back to take a quick break here at human events daily.
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And he's been my friend right from the beginning of this whole beautiful event.
00:38:18.220
And we're going to turn it around and make our country quite a good day.
00:38:27.220
We are back here and we're, we've been so excited and so blessed on this Veterans Day
00:38:32.220
to have had the time to sit down with the Undersecretary of the Air Force, Lieutenant Colonel Matthew Lohmeyer.
00:38:38.220
He is the first veteran of the Space Force and he's the author of the book Irresistible Revolution.
00:38:45.220
And he's been telling us so much about his story and all of the things that he's been up to now,
00:38:50.220
all the work that he's been doing, uh, setting aside private life, coming back to government.
00:38:54.220
Mr. Secretary, I just want to say how thankful I am that you were here with us on this Veterans Day.
00:39:00.220
Do you have a final message for, for the veterans out there, the service members out there, just as we go through this Veterans Day about,
00:39:15.220
Um, I already mentioned that, you know, the first day I'd come back in, uh, to this position,
00:39:20.220
I had an opportunity to sit and listen to the, in a, in a, in a classified setting, the work that our, uh, men and women in uniform do specifically.
00:39:33.220
But, um, I, I think the, the only thing that there is to say on a day like this is thank you to the men and women in uniform.
00:39:40.220
We've got a great Secretary of War who's laser focused on the things that matter.
00:39:44.220
And, uh, and I'm focused on those things too, and I'm grateful for the opportunity to come on and thank them and thank you for your time.
00:39:55.220
Folks, it's, it's very rare when you, when you get a situation like that.
00:39:59.220
And, and I know that he's, he's not able to, you know, talk about it in, in his official capacity, but we'll, we'll let you know that he is the subject of this new documentary that's just come out.
00:40:11.220
I want to give everyone an opportunity to go and check it out.
00:40:20.220
And it's an incredible, just an incredible look, not just through his career, through his story, but also at the history of communism itself, the history of what communists have done all around the world.
00:40:35.220
And in fact, I, I, I guys, I mean, I'm just going to say it.
00:40:38.220
Let's, let's hit the trailer again, because this thing was too good.
00:40:48.220
Being spied on, the chaplain snooping around my office and my house being broken into.
00:40:53.220
Things like that don't happen on military bases.
00:40:56.220
The man I'm interviewing today has 1,200 hours of flying a T-38,
00:41:07.280
This is not just anybody we're talking about that served the military.
00:41:21.480
The entire military is preparing for a fight against China.
00:41:37.880
and they thought it was incredible to see that inclusion and change.
00:41:41.940
We were starting to be divided by political discourse.
00:41:46.960
That's what diversity, equity, inclusion is all about.
00:41:55.520
Because of forces coming from Marxism within our own government,
00:41:58.520
it becomes not a foreign threat, it becomes a domestic threat.
00:42:08.460
Biggest terror threat in this country is white men.
00:42:13.320
One of the greatest obstacles to the success of a Marxist revolutionary cause
00:43:30.340
Or the intelligence preparation of the environment.
00:43:35.440
the operational preparation of the environment.
00:43:52.100
It's obviously what they were doing to our military.
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Charlie Kirk was murdered by a violent leftist.